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11 May

Foglia et les phoques

Pierre Foglia consacre sa plus récente chronique à la chasse au phoque en soulevant la question : est-on devant la plus grande opération de marketing jamais égalée qui confond tout […]

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11 May

Freelance writers’ agency open for business

The Canadian Writers’ Group, an agency for freelance magazine writers, has launched with a group of 50 writers on board. The agency, run by former Toro editor-in-chief Derek Finkle, has […]

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11 May

Reporting from Afghanistan is getting tougher

Canadian journalists covering NATO activities in Afghanistan are being subjected to increased surveillance, including biometric scans and restrictions on independent travel to and from Kandahar airport. None of this helps […]

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11 May

CBC could be facing further cuts

CBC could be facing a cut of up to five per cent or $56 million from its parliamentary appropriation in the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the public broadcaster reports. The CBC […]

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11 May

Western Magazine Awards finalists announced

The finalists for the Western Magazine Awards (WMA) have been announced in preparation for the upcoming ceremony. Shelley Youngblut, editor-in-chief of Swerve will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Swerve is […]

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11 May

Inside the government’s message-making machine

ByDenise RudnickiNo reporter wants to be called a stenographer. There’s nothing about that label that appeals to the journalistic imagination, which prefers the image of political reporters as a motley […]

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11 May

Doing a lot with a little: how a team of students broke a story wide open

By Fred Vallance-Jones One of the most gratifying parts of making the move to academic life is seeing the remarkable things that a group of young people can accomplish when […]

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11 May

First “Maggie Awards” honour best of Manitoba’s mag industry

The first series of Manitoba Magazine Awards were handed out during the annual conference of the Manitoba Magazine Publishers’ Association. At a ceremony hosted by CBC’s Alex Freedman and Sean […]

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11 May

Times-Colonist to cut Monday paper

Starting June 22, the CanWest-owned Victoria Times-Colonist will stop printing a Monday edition of the newspaper, the paper announced. A May 9 note in the paper and online stated: “The […]

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9 May

Google introduces News Timeline

The ceaselessly clever innovators at Google Labs have launched a new application that could prove useful to anyone using current or recent news reports in their research. News Timeline marries the topic/phrase […]

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